The Anshi Rebellion was a rebellion that broke out during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and lasted nearly eight years before it was eliminated. And this has a great impact on Datang, and it is also the beginning of Datang's decline from its peak.
The reason why it is called the An Shi Rebellion is mainly because the commanders who launched the anti-Tang rebellion were mainly An Lushan and Shi Siming. And we all know that An Lushan and Shi Siming were killed by their own sons one after another, which is also a strange point, but this has nothing to do with the outbreak of the An Shi Rebellion, after all, the outbreak is their father's business.
An Lushan and Shi Siming were both Turkic, and the two had known each other since they were very young and had a good relationship. In the process of An Lushan's rise, Shi Siming's support and help to him was very great.
After An Lushan joined the army, he became famous for his bravery, and he also relied on his generous gifts and bribes to make a steady progress. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was very fond of him, and not only made him concurrently serve as the envoy of Pinglu, Fanyang (Youzhou), and the three towns of Hedong, but even made him the king of Dongping County. And he was also the adopted son of Yang Guifei, and it can be said that he was powerful at that time.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), An Lushan brazenly launched the An Shi Rebellion in the name of killing the chancellor Yang Guozhong. After An Lushan raised an army, it can be said that he was full of momentum, successively capturing Luoyang and Chang'an, forcing Tang Xuanzong to flee to Sichuan, and he also established a puppet Yan regime and became emperor.
However, An Lushan was not in good health, in addition to being obese, his eyes were not good, and it did not take long for the rebellion to begin that he was blind. And this also led to his already fierce and cruel even more lawlessness, so the people around him could not stand it.
An Lushan favored his young son, which caused the displeasure of another son, An Qingxu, the King of Jin, so he instructed the eunuch Li Pig'er to kill An Lushan and make himself emperor.
However, An Qingxu was weak and still had a big gap with his father. With the counterattack of the Tang Dynasty, the rebel war situation was unfavorable, and they withdrew from Luoyang and fled to Yecheng. Later, An Qingxu was killed by Shi Siming again. However, Shi Siming's fate was not good, and he was actually killed by his own Shi Chaoyi.
It can be said that these two sons killed their fathers, the impact on the rebels is very large, in the face of such infighting, Datang also seized the opportunity, and finally eliminated the rebels, ending this Anshi rebellion.